Apparatus for chilling and dispensing beer glasses



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Original application September 15, 1947, Serial No. 774,138, new Patent No. 2,628,009, dated February 10, 1953. Divided and this application February 9, 1953, Serial No. 335,958

4 Claims. (Cl. 62-102) This application is a divisional application from my copending application Serial Number 774,138 now Patent No. 2,628,009. The invention described and claimed in this divisional application consists in a new and useful improvement in apparatus for chilling and dispensing beer glasses. The particularly novel and useful features of my improved device are a freeze box and a beer glass trackway associated with the freeze box and having a blower for chilling the glasses passed therealong.

While I have illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter fully describe one specific embodiment of my invention, it is to be distinctly understood that I do not consider my invention to be limited to said specific embodiment and that I refer for its scope to the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved apparatus.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse vertical section of the apparatus, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged horizontal section on the lin 4-4 of Fig. 2 in the direction of the arrows.

As illustrated in the drawings, my improved apparatus has a rear wall 1, bottom 2, a top 3, an upper front wall 4, a front shelf 5, and a lower front wall 6. The shelf 5 has a depending drip plate 15 provided with a removable cover plate 16 having perforations 17.

The apparatus is provided throughout its interior with suitable insulating packing 32. There is a suitable freeze box (Figs. 2 and 4) having a bottom 83, sides 84 and a shelf 85, which is supported by suitable brackets 86 on the rear wall 1 and front wall 4. The box is provided with a suitable refrigerant conduit 88 coiled about the freeze box and connected with a refrigerant compressor (not shown).

The apparatus is provided with an arcuate track (Fig. 4) for chilling beer glasses passed therealong. This track comprises a floor 89, a vertical wall 90, a top 91, an upstanding flange 92 on the floor 89 and a depending flange 93 on the top 91 aligned vertically with the flange 92. The track is supported on the brackets 86 on the rear Wall 1 and flanges 94 and 95 attached to the front wall 4. The intake end of this track is disposed adjacent an opening 96 in the wall 4 to the right and its discharge end is disposed adjacent an opening 97 in the wall 4 to the left. The opening 96 is closed by double swinging doors 98 and the opening 97 is closed by double swinging doors 99. The doors 98 open inwardly and the doors 99 open outwardly. Both sets of doors are biased to closed position.

2,739,455 Patented Mar. 27, 1956 Suitably mounted on the wall 4 intermediate the freeze box and the discharge end of the glass chilling track, there is a suitable electric blower 100 having its intake 101 immediately adjacent the refrigerant conduit 88 coiled about the freeze box, and its discharge end 102 connected to an air duct 103 communicating with three discharge ports 104 in the floor 89 adjacent the opening 97 at the discharge end of the beer glass track.

It will be noticed (Figs. 1 and 4) that the floor 89 of the track lies in the same horizontal plane as the plate 16 of the shelf 5.

From the foregoing description of the details of construction of my improved apparatus, its use and operation will be obvious. Empty, clean, inverted beer glasses are pushed inwardly against the doors 98 which open to admit them to the glass track, the dimensions of which are such that the inverted glasses are retained on the track by the wall and the flanges 92 and 93. The floor 89 of the track is sufficiently smooth to facilitate sliding of the glasses on their rims. When the track has been filled, it is obvious that insertion of an unchilled glass through the opening 96 will cause ejection of a chilled glass through the opening 97, the doors 99 yielding to permit passage of the glass to the plate 16.

To suitably reduce the temperature of the glasses immediately prior to their ejection from the track, the blower may be used to force the air of low temperature about the conduit 88 surrounding the freeze box through the ports 104 to rise into the glasses passing thereover.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In an apparatus for chilling and dispensing beer glasses, the combination of a casing having a pair of openings, each having a rectilinear bottom edge, refrigerating means and an insulation lining; a horizontal shelf projecting from said casing substantially midway between the top and bottom of said casing, the upper surface of said shelf and the bottom edges of said openings lying in a common plane; a track so disposed in said casing as to extend from one of said openings to the other opening, and having a horizontal, smooth floor, the upper surface of which lies in said plane; and sets of double doors for closing said openings, respectively, said doors being biased to closed position, the doors of one of said sets opening inwardly of said casing to aiford passage of the beer glasses from the shelf to said track, and the doors of the other set opening outwardly of said casing to aiford passage of the beer glasses from the track to the shelf.

2. An apparatus, according to claim 1, in which said floor has a plurality of ports therethrough, and having a blower mounted in said casing and having its intake end disposed closely adjacent said refrigerating means and its outlet connected to said track ports.

3. In an apparatus for chilling and dispensing beer glasses, the combination of a casing having top, bottom and side walls, a rear wall and a front wall comprising upper and lower portions; a shelf horizontally mounted on said casing between said upper and lower portions, said upper portion having a pair of openings disposed at the ends of said upper portion, adjacent said side walls, respectively; doors hinged on said upper portion and biased to close said openings; a refrigerant conduit mounted on said rear wall and saidupper portion of said front wall and disposed in the casing between said openings, closely adjacent said upper portion of said front wall and spaced from said rear wall; an arcuate track so mounted in said casing as to extend from one of said openings to the other opening and to pass around said conduit and between said conduit and said rear wall, said track having a horizontal, smooth floor disposed in the horizontal plane of the upper surface of said shelf.

4. An apparatus, according to claim 3, in which said floor has a plurality of ports therethrough, and having a blower mounted in said casing between said conduit and 5 said track and having its intake disposed closely adjacent said conduit and its outlet connected to said floor ports.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Arnold et a1 Jan. 8, 1919 Greer et a1 Apr. 8, 1930 Grayson et a1 July 14, 1931 Greene Oct. 17, 1933 Kucher Jan. 28, 1936 Tull July 19, 1941 McGrath Sept. 12, 1950 

